Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn invasion barges filled with Commandos put off from warships, streaked toward the rocky shores of the Norwegian islands of Vaagsoy and Maaloy, assembly point for German troop and supply ships bound for the Russian front. The warships poured broadsides of 50 shells a minute into German gun positions; overhead R.A.F. planes dodged German tracer bullets. Fires blazed on ammunition dumps hit by shells and bombs...
...Norwegian sea captain (said the Overseas News Agency last week) testified before a German naval court in Norway that his ship had been stopped and sunk by a British submarine hard by the coast of Norway...
...Nonsense," shouted a German officer. "There are no British submarines off the Norwegian coast. You must have struck a mine...
...advice and fearful of responsibility." A month later he revealed that the War Cabinet had refused his demand that he attempt the capture of Trondheim, and he said baldly that such a capture would have been possible and might well have changed the entire course of Germany's Norwegian campaign...
...turned out a top-notch cluematic vaudevillc. The plot is only a poor excuse for a number of excellent specialties and doesn'd do a very good job of pasting them together, john Payne signs up to take care of a refugee and finds a twenty-one year old Norwegian blonde on his hands. The rest of the story is how girl gets boy away from luscious Lynn Bari; the winner (surprise, surprise!) is Sonja Henic...